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SATURN: 2012 to 2015
NOTE: FOR YOUR OWN SIGN’S “SATURN
EFFECTS,” SCROLL DOWN.
The planet Saturn, which has spent the last 32 months in LIBRA, will leave this
sign on October 5, 2012, and enter SCORPIO, where it will stay until September
17, 2015. That’s a bit in the future as I write this, but it’s worth considering
now, if you’re doing any long-range planning. Saturn rules restrictions,
authority, structure (e.g., the rebar in concrete) and many practical matters,
such as national governments, wheat cycles and commercial real estate. It’s no
coincidence that Saturn in Libra, in bad aspect to its home sign, CAPRICORN, has
coincided with the problems in Europe. (Which begin approaching a solution
October onward – a “kill or cure” one, with many things “dying.”)
Here is the part of your life that has been restricted since late 2009, but
won’t be after October 5, 2012. (In fact, these same areas can prove unusually
fruitful from October/12 onward.) These were romance for GEMINI, work for
TAURUS, relationships for ARIES, sex, finances and research for PISCES, law,
travel and intellect for AQUARIUS, career/ambition for Capricorn, socializing
and hopes for SAGITTARIUS, administrative contacts, sleep and recuperation for
SCORPIO, selfhood for Libra, income for VIRGO, communications and travel for
LEO, and home life for CANCER – all have been restricted, curtailed, or the
source of restrictions generally. For instance, Gemini might have felt romance
was slow and hard work, or Gemini might have fallen in love and found the rest
of his/her life was restricted, bounded, by it.
From October 2012 into September 2015, the species of restriction changes for
each of us. Generally, it is better to avoid this new restricted zone rather
than operate within it, as Saturn tends to dampen luck, profits and fulsome
results. Saturn doesn’t “cheat” you – if you work an hour, it gives you an
hour’s wage – but not a penny more. Sometimes Saturn “pays off” later – up to 29
years later. Jupiter rules luck, Venus the sweet fruitful warmth of May; Saturn
rules winter, when plants bare their limbs in frozen dance, twisting toward the
brooding sky.
Please don’t read the forecasts below for a an uplifting or hopeful message, but
for a “reality check” that governs a certain area of your life – probably less
than 10 per cent, unless you fixate on the area where Saturn is orbiting and
give it extra influence in your life. (Not usually a good idea.) Remember,
Saturn is the planet of restrictions, age (and age differences – e.g., if a 20
year old man was fooling with a forty-year old woman, both would be under the
aegis of Saturn) and of time – usually, slow, slow time. Saturn’s main message
to us is threefold: work, be prepared, and wait. We should thank Saturn for
letting us know where our restrictions lie, where we cannot expect quick results
or easy luck – where we might need to handle things before our neglect causes
loss. So here is more “Saturn”: |
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Aries
- (March 21-April 19)
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ARIES, Saturn has restricted
your relationships since October 2009 – marriage,
relocation, fame, dealing with the public, negotiation,
litigation – these were slow, frustrating things without
much reward. At last, starting in October, you will be free
to flirt, chase someone, find a response to your overtures,
even marry or form a partnership. But from October 2012 to
September 2015, Saturn’s restrictions slide into an arena
closely linked to relationships: your sexual and intimate
link(s), large financial concerns (investments, mortgages,
business financing) lifestyle choices, commitments,
research, and deep health zones. Try to plan future projects
that don’t take you into these areas, or at least don’t
depend on them for success. On the other hand, as Saturn is
your career ruler, this can signal that for the next three
years your source of career advancement (or of career
change) is in these areas: finance, research, etc. |
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Taurus
- (April 20-May 20) |
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TAURUS, October 2012
will end 3 years of hard work that might have garnered
only slim rewards (laziness was totally unrewarded).
From October onward, for approximately 3 years (to
September 2015) restrictions will characterize your
relationships. Others will be slow to accept your
propositions in personal and business terms: you will
have to prove yourself, your product, and your
loyalty. You might be slow and cautious about
relocating, marrying, dealing with the public,
negotiation and litigation. Though you’ll find
relations with your own peers slow, links will blossom
with people much older or younger – even from another
generation. This might lead to marriage, life in a
foreign country, and/or a long-term legal contract. If
you love others, love will be returned. This will NOT
be a good time to start a lawsuit. It WILL be a good
time to relocate to a foreign country, or to seek
opportunities in intellectual, insurance, publishing,
cultural and similar fields. |
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Gemini
- (May 21-June 20) |
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GEMINI, October 2012
ends 3 years of intriguing – but slow – romance. (The
upside was, that romance had a strong sexual spur for
you – though that itself might have made some
prospects leery of leaping into intimacy with you.)
This slowness also affected creativity, pleasure,
beauty, dealings with or teaching of children,
speculation and risk – in these, you haven’t been as
perky and assured as usual. Starting in October, this
cloud lifts from your romantic (creative, etc.) zone,
and transfers to your work and health areas. Now to
September 2015, protect your health from the kinds of
complaints you usually have, but in particular keep an
eye on sexual diseases, bones, knees, “hardening”
(e.g., gall stones, constipation) and skin and gums.
Work can be long and hard – don’t let it be the centre
of your life. E.g.: should I do my job, or move to
Europe? Stay at work, or ask Thingamajig to marry me?
Move, marry, make friends! |
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Cancer
- (June 21-July 22) |
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CANCER, since 2009, your
home life and home duties have been heavy. Children
demanded more attention, time and money than usual.
Home demands might even have interfered with your
marriage or a career partnership. If you’re single,
new, viable emotional relationships have been
difficult to start and continue: they kept displaying
a tendency to end. You might have felt trapped or
weighed down by your home, a mortgage, aging parents,
etc. In October 2012 that cloud lifts; for the 3
following years restrictions, prudence and slowness
will affect your romantic, creative and speculative
interests – even in sports and pleasure, you’ll choose
a quieter, more sober role. This has a great upside,
though: if you’re single, you could meet someone
during this period (October 2012 to September 2015)
who has all the makings of a great life mate. If
you’re married, your home and love settle into a more
harmonious, smooth and gentle rhythm – mutual respect
grows. |
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Leo -
(July 23-Aug. 22) |
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LEO, from October 5,
2012 to mid-September 2015, Saturn will bring
restrictions and a sober mood to fundamentals: home,
real estate, parenting, gardening, nutrition/food,
digestion, soul and similar areas. Protect or buttress
these areas without making them a priority – fix that
basement, reconnect with your spirit, eat for health,
re-establish trust with a family member, etc. In
business and personal life, the strength of your
foundations will allow expansion and growth of other
areas, such as love, money-making, employment, health,
etc. Neglected foundations will restrict growth. The
bounty of the fruit tree depends on its roots. Don’t
buy real estate during this period. A job might end.
On the good side, the past three years of restricted
short distance travel, problematic relations with
siblings, dampened curiosity, and sluggish or
unaffectionate communications, now ends and rights
itself – soon, you’ll be whistling happily! |
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Virgo
- (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) |
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VIRGO, your money window
was clouded during the last three years; you made
less, or spent more. When Saturn moves into the sign
SCORPIO in early October, 2012, your money picture
will begin improving, right up to late 2016 through
2017, when a lucky earnings peak will occur. While
Saturn stays in Scorpio (Oct. 2012 to Sept. 2015) you
will find relations with siblings and casual
acquaintances slow; everyday spontaneity and
ebullience will fade, to be replaced by more sober
communications – and quiet social events. This can be
said of your communications in general: slow and
careful become the trend. Travel, errands, emails,
telephones, paperwork, applications and reports,
filing, distribution, dispatching, and “finger work”
(e.g., typing) will be more difficult than usual.
There is a silver lining: despite the slowness and
sobriety of these zones over the three years ahead,
you will derive pleasure from them – because wherever
Saturn goes, you find pleasure and beauty. This period
might bring true love to you – perhaps from the very
things that are restricted, such as travel. You could
meet love on a bus trip, or through emails (internet).
But don’t start a practical (business) mail campaign.
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Libra
- (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) |
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LIBRA, 2010 to October
2012 was a sober time, when you needed to examine (and
fix) your foundations, your soul, and your direction
in life. Most importantly, you had to find a permanent
place to live, or had to fix your home. Many Librans
faced critical situations with a parent (or as a
parent). In general, your mood has been
uncharacteristically sober. Due to other (non-Saturn)
factors, this general focus on home, soul and parents
will not end for another 11 years. But, from October
5, 2012 to mid-September 2015, no longer will your
shirt-tail be caught in the vise of home problems.
Your mood will lift, you’ll eagerly plunge into
travel, love, intellectual expansion, learning,
cultural events and involvements. However, from late
2012 to September 2015 you will experience
restrictions in money, especially in earnings and
spending. You might earn less – or earn more, but see
your expenditures rise. In either case, prudently
scale down your budget. You might buy a property to
live in – that’s good. |
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Scorpio
- (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) |
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SCORPIO, from October
2012 to September 2015, you will grow more sober and
realistic, more practical and pragmatic than usual.
From 2010 to late 2012 you did not suffer as many
restrictions as most signs, though your dealings with
government agencies and your employer’s head office
have been burdensome and slow. This “administrative
weight” fades, replaced by a more personal
seriousness. You will be called upon, 2012 to 2015, to
express yourself more carefully and ambitiously.
Paperwork, reports, emails, calls – these will become
as slow as molasses. Communicating will be like
walking through sand. But you’ll grow better at
refining your message and getting it across. Travel,
distribution, dispatch, logistics, scheduling and
timing, all will demand more care and proceed more
slowly. This will be a good time to buy a car, tools
and timepieces – they’ll last forever. |
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Sagittarius
- (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) |
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SAGITTARIUS, for the
past three years (2010-12) your dreams have been
circumscribed by reality and practical considerations.
On the plus side, this influence encouraged you to
take a giant practical step, such as buying a home or
equipment/machinery, or training to make more money.
Whatever the step, it involved money. Now, from
October 2012 to September 2015 you will be largely
free of delays and restrictions, as taskmaster Saturn
will occupy a quiet, restful zone in your chart.
Still, you have to be diligent with management,
delegation, administrative, government-linked, factory
and assembly-line, warehousing, spiritual,
institutional and charitable zones. Don’t focus your
main efforts in these restricted, slowed areas, but
don’t neglect them either, for they will affect your
income or financial health. For instance, you might
need to apply for government benefits or a pension. Or
your job might involve more managerial duties. If
you’re seeking new employment, look in these
“background” (gov’t, warehousing, etc.) areas. |
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Capricorn
- (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) |
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CAPRICORN, from October
2012 to September 2015, the planet Saturn will occupy
your sector of wishes and hopes, of social
connections, entertainment and gatherings, and of
future plans. For five years, I have been promising
that the 2008-to-2023 period will bring you huge new
life goals, a new social circle, and, ultimately, will
fulfill your deepest wishes. During these three years
ahead, you should start to see strong evidence that
this is so. The past few years saw you being tested
and judged. Now to autumn 2015, it is time to
celebrate – but in your careful, diplomatic, quiet,
realistic and sober manner. Your social scene will be
decorous, slow, and filled with other generations: but
the lack of raucousness will equal the growth of solid
ties. Politics, unions and reunions, picnics, concerts
– any gathering will have you at its centre. There is
a cover charge: this social growth and wish
fulfillment will be accompanied by increased
responsibilities. Smile – your new future is setting
itself up, building its structure! |
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Aquarius-(Jan.
20-Feb. 18) |
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AQUARIUS, the 2010
to 2012 period made you deal with restrictions and
slow progress in legal, intellectual, educational,
publishing, import/export, international, far travel,
cultural, love and similar zones. Now, these areas
lighten up, just in time for this decade’s best
romantic, creative cycle (summer 2012 to summer 2013)!
From October 2012 to September 2015, Saturn transfers
his slowness, restriction and “tough love” to your
career and ambitions zone. On the one hand, Saturn
rules ambition and the corridors of power and
prestige, so your career, business and status efforts
will take on a natural, predictable pace, and yield
natural, predictable rewards – if you work hard. On
the other hand, you will be tested, judged. Strictly
avoid punching the boss, sticking your hand in the
till, or quitting – these will affect your long-term
employment outlook. Don’t expect immediate
compensation for the extra work or duties piled on you
– the reward will be delayed, and a promotion might
arrive before a pay raise. Accept this, be patient. |
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Pisces
- (Feb. 19-March 20) |
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PISCES, the last three
years have dampened results in the areas of intimacy,
investment and other large financial endeavors,
research, diagnosis, health, and lifestyle changes.
Your efforts in these arenas might have inched you
solidly closer to a major life goal, but you paid for
every gain. Now, October 2012 through September 2015,
this restrictive, slow atmosphere settles over your
intellectual, legal, learning, cultural, ritual,
religious and philosophical zones. These life sectors,
though restricted, can become solid, steady pathways
to fulfilling a major life wish. Success will have a
price: hard work. If you’re young, the price could
include a loss of naivety, as idealism will be
supplanted by pragmatism and a more sober,
down-to-earth view of life. This is not a good period
to initiate a lawsuit – not because you won’t win, but
because, win or lose, it will proceed s-l-o-w-l-y, and
extract a lot of money and energy from you. |
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